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Re: Managing public and private data in svn

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2007-12-09 15:57:51 CET

On Dec 9, 2007 8:51 AM, js <ebgssth@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Pekka,
> Thanks for the info.
>
> But that article doesn't tell me how to prevent users from seeing private data.
> Should I have to create another svn repository to do it?

As Pekka stated in the last line of his reply, use Subversion's
built-in per-directory access control features to prevent users from
accessing specific directories which they aren't allowed to see.

> On Dec 9, 2007 10:02 PM, Pekka Niiranen <pekka.niiranen@pp5.inet.fi> wrote:
> >
> > js wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to manage two kind of data, public and private one.
> > >
> > > The public ones are source code,
> > > that I want to be read-write accessable from users who
> > > have an account on the server, but read-only for the others.
> > > (I could implement this by using svn+ssh)
> > >
> > > The private ones are configuration files, apache.conf, my.cnf
> > > and like that which I don't want to be read by
> > > anyone except for me.
> > >
> > > I tried to implement this by creating one big repository.
> > > I did svn mkdir public and private in there and
> > > installed mod_dav_svn.
> > > Then I added "SVNPath /path/to/svn/public/" to apache's conf
> > > and tried browsing it but
> > > I got "Could not open the requested SVN filesystem"
> > > and didn't work.
> > >
> > > So Could anyone please give me some advice or any hints?
> > > I searched on the web but didn't find exact info.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > try this article:
> >
> > "ONLamp.com: Setting up a Secure Subversion Server"
> >
> > Use svnaccess -file to set up directory rights per user.
> >
> > -pekka-
> >
> >
>
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